The Dallas Morning News
February 3, 1886

Special to The News.
Sherman, Feb. 2 - At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen last night the following official reports were handed in and accepted:

General Fund	$884.01
Street fund	$33.43
New cemetery fund	$77.50
Street and bridge fund	$182.78
Old cemetery fund	$100.66
Engine bond fund	$510.31
Bridge fund	$322.85
Total on hand Feb. 1	$2,108.54

Adults, white	6
Children, white	4
Adults, colored	1
Total	11

The Chief of Police reports: Arrests 18, convictions 12, dismissals 6.  Total assessment of fines $114.50, total collection of fines $112.50.
Chief Levy reports the engine hose carriages, hook and ladder trucks and all of fire department apparatus in excellent trim
and ready at a moment's call for active service at a fire.  The paid department was reported, as ever, on the alert.
The usual budget of accounts for the month of January was allowed.
A petition from a citizen on Pacific street, in the First Ward, prayed that the city pay for property said to belong to private
citizens, although it had been in use as a public thoroughfare for some time since.  The Council claimed the ground and refused
to pay for the strip claimed by the petitioner.

Occupation fund	$751.50
School fund	$391.63
Street & bridge fund	$128.87
Total	$1555.33

GENERAL COURTHOUSE NOTES
County Tax Collector A.R. Andrews reports tax collections as being on a revival, the amount taken in to-day and yesterday being over $2500.  The taxpayers who have contributed this amount have been generally of the farming class.

Deputy Sheriff Bob May returned from McKinney last night, whither he had been to convey the following attached witnesses in the case of Robt. Wilson, charged with theft of cotton, and Frank Dysart, theft of cattle: Philander Bean, Wm. Dewey, Mal Dumas, Will Echols, J.C. Whitesides, Clay Duley, J.P. Barron.

There was not a case tried in the Police Court this morning.

The rain to-day delayed County Assessor Stewart in his work of assessing the property of the city.

A number of Denisonites legal lights and otherwise, were in the city in attendance on the County Court, notwithstanding the inclemency.

This has been a field day in the County Clerk's office, the following deeds of transfer being recorded:

• Dexter and Ida Wagner to C.M. Still, lots in Denison; consideration $150.
• Charlotte Ryan to Robert Lockhart, lots in Denison; consideration $60.
• B.P. Boling and wife to J. and S.A. Balthus, lots in Denison; consideration $55.
• B.P. and L.A. Boling to Melissa Thornhill, lots in Denison; consideration, $5.
• J.W. Johnson and wife to J.H. Mount, lots in Van Alstyne; consideration, $75.
• J.G. and A.A. Glen to Sadie F. Davis, lots in Whitesboro; consideration, $850.
• E. Odell and wife to John Odell, land on Iron Ore Creek; consideration, $1.
• E. Odell and wife to James Odell, land on Iron Ore Creek; consideration, $1.
• W.J. Burden to John Sheris, land on Brushy Creek; consideration, $400.
• Silas Hare to Wm. Campbell, land on Iron Ore Creek; consideration, $140.
• R.A. Clement to D.R. Stuart, land on Pilot Grove Creek; consideration $1.
• L.M. Collins to Nancy James, land on Jordan Creek; consideration $95.
• William Campbell to E.T. Hanson, land on Iron Ore Creek; consideration $440.
• John Chisum to W.F. Whittington, land on Brushy Creek; consideration, promissory notes.
• H. and Fannie Tone to S.R. Morris, lots in Denison; consideration $200.
• I.J. Killon to W.F. Whittington, 640 acres of land in Grayson County; consideration $4800.
• R.B. Ginge and wife to D.A. Simmons, 120 acres; consideration $2500.
• Mary E. Knight to P.W> McConnel, 40 acres of land; consideration $480.
• Sarah Tate to E.C. Knight, 40 acres of land; consideration $480.
• Mary Butler to John R. Aston, quit claim to 107 acres of land; consideration $1.00.

Byers Bros	$309.00
Roberts, Hardwick & Taylor	$66.00
Merchants' and Planters National Bank	$1300.00
Total	$1,674.00

Leper, Lingo & Co	$50.13
F.M. Robinson	$65.20
Total	$115.33

Weir Plow Company, of Dallas, is also interested to the amount of $213.45.

The annual report of City Sexton A. Gardner, filed with the cemetery committee, shows that there were 112 interments
in the city during the year ended Dec. 31, 1885